Swainby, North Yorkshire Weather
About Swainby, North Yorkshire
Swainby holds a quiet dignity in the North Yorkshire landscape, defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons across its flat agricultural horizon. It lies 4.5 miles east-south-east of Bedale (from Bedale: bearing 113°T, OS grid SE 333 853), and is situated north-west of Pickhill village. The earth here feels heavy and patient, bearing the faint, ghostly imprints of the Swainby Medieval Settlement, Premonstratensian Abbey, Grange and Field System that once hummed with monastic industry. To the southwest, the waters of Healam Beck cut a modest, meandering path through the clay, reflecting a sky that often seems wider and more imposing than the fields themselves. The horizon is punctuated by the gentle, rising swell of Stot Hill, which offers a vantage point for watching the light shift from a pale, watery morning grey into the deep, burnished gold of dusk. Swainby retains a sense of seclusion that defies the encroachment of modern haste, preferring the rhythm of the hedgerow to the noise of the main road. The legacy of the land is measured in these subtle contours and the damp, cool scent of the soil after a long rain. It is a place where history remains buried just beneath the surface, waiting in the stillness for the observant eye to notice the change in the grass.
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About This Swainby, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Swainby, North Yorkshire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Swainby includes coordinates 54.263082, -1.489105, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Swainby is available on the Swainby map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the North Yorkshire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.